Cancer risks associated with external radiation from diagnostic imaging procedures

MS Linet, TL Slovis, DL Miller… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The 600% increase in medical radiation exposure to the US population since 1980 has
provided immense benefit, but increased potential future cancer risks to patients. Most of the …

2018 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of adults with congenital heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association …

KK Stout, CJ Daniels, JA Aboulhosn, B Bozkurt… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - jacc.org
2018 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: A
Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on …

Primary prevention of coronary heart disease: integration of new data, evolving views, revised goals, and role of rosuvastatin in management. A comprehensive survey

R Kones - Drug design, development and therapy, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
A recent explosion in the amount of cardiovascular risk and incipient, undetected subclinical
cardiovascular pathology has swept across the globe. Nearly 70% of adult Americans are …

Epidemiological studies of low-dose ionizing radiation and cancer: summary bias assessment and meta-analysis

M Hauptmann, RD Daniels, E Cardis… - JNCI …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Ionizing radiation is an established carcinogen, but risks from low-dose
exposures are controversial. Since the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation VII review of …

Multinational data on cumulative radiation exposure of patients from recurrent radiological procedures: call for action

M Brambilla, J Vassileva, A Kuchcinska, MM Rehani - European radiology, 2020 - Springer
Objectives To have a global picture of the recurrent use of CT imaging to a level where
cumulative effective dose (CED) to individual patients may be exceeding 100 mSv at which …

Patients with heart failure have an increased risk of incident cancer

T Hasin, Y Gerber, SM McNallan, SA Weston… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
Objectives: This study sought to evaluate the risk of cancer in patients with heart failure (HF)
compared with community controls and to determine the impact of cancer post-HF on …

Effects of radiation exposure from cardiac imaging: how good are the data?

AJ Einstein - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2012 - jacc.org
Concerns about medical exposure to ionizing radiation have become heightened in recent
years as a result of rapid growth in procedure volumes and the high radiation doses incurred …

Exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac procedures and malignancy risk in adults with congenital heart disease

S Cohen, A Liu, M Gurvitz, L Guo, J Therrien… - Circulation, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) are exposed to increasing amounts
of low-dose ionizing radiation (LDIR) from cardiac procedures. Cancer prevalence in this …

Radiation risk issues in recurrent imaging

C Brower, MM Rehani - The British journal of radiology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Millions of patients benefit from medical imaging every single day. However, we have
entered an unprecedented era in imaging practices wherein 1 out of 125 patients can be …

The risk of cancer from CT scans and other sources of low-dose radiation: a critical appraisal of methodologic quality

CH Schultz, R Fairley, LSL Murphy… - Prehospital and disaster …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Introduction: Concern exists that radiation exposure from computerized tomography (CT) will
cause thousands of malignancies. Other experts share the same perspective regarding the …